Warning: Don't eat the fish

I hope so
they say everything down here is contaimated with mercury poison
Jimw

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"jimnluna" wrote in message
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Sounds like more of the bass people trying to keep all their fish.
They do that down here. I'm still alive after 65 years, but will probably
die soon, but not from mercury....


What do you mean? Even the most extreme of the C&R guys are beginning to
understand that selective harvest may be necessary to maintain a fishery
in
some circumstances.

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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Warning: Don't eat the fish



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Lakes on future Indian Hill park site have mercury

By Sheila McLaughlin
Enquirer staff writer


INDIAN HILL - Gravel-pit lakes at a future park here continue to show
elevated levels of mercury, city officials said Wednesday.

But that won't spoil plans to open the lakes for boating and angling
once
the park is developed on Ohio 126.

Just don't eat the fish, officials said. They'll post signs to that
effect
at Grand Valley when the park opens for fishing, City Manager Mike
Burns
said.

"The village believes the correct and most conservative action is to
continue its current policy of permitting only catch-and-release
fishing
at the Grand Valley site," he said.

The city ordered a second round of tests in June to determine the
accuracy
of initial tests taken at the site in April. Early samples indicated
that
mercury levels in some lakes were higher than standards for drinking
water, and in two cases, unsafe for aquatic life.

Officials said the latest results were consistent with the first.

Fish advisories are common in local and national lakes, rivers and
streams. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency currently advises
eating
no more than one weekly serving of sport fish from all water bodies in
the
state because of mercury or PCB content. Several local waters,
including
the Little Miami River, are even more restricted for certain fish
species.

Ohio EPA also suggested that Indian Hill step up monitoring of its
drinking water because the lakes sit on top of the aquifer that feeds
city
wells. Samples from the wells in July showed no lead or mercury levels,
city waterworks superintendent Jim Fox said.

The agency also sidelined an investigation into the possibility that
lead
may be on the site because a shooting range may have operated on the
site
until the 1970s. There was no clear evidence of a range in aerial
photographs, but the investigation could be reopened if new information
surfaces, spokeswoman Heather Lauer said.

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